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Days before the first event at the renovated Cumberland County Civic Center, a tour of the building on Monday featured new luxury boxes, bigger locker rooms, wider concourses and many more women's restrooms.
Joe Tipsword, who works for E.S. Boulos Co., installs a light at the Cumberland County Civic Center on Monday. The 15-month renovation is nearing its end as the civic center prepares to open for the 24th annual Maine Home, Remodeling and Garden Show this weekend.
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The $34 million renovation of the Cumberland County Civic Center includes a lot of glass at the enclosed corners, creating spaces that can be closed off for various purposes.
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"We knew we had to make it a spectacular place," said Joe Bruno, a civic center trustee, as he walked through the main lobby on Spring Street, one part of the county-owned building that the $34 million project changed most dramatically.
The new space encloses what was an outdoor courtyard. Inside the expanded lobby are two box offices, a Dunkin' Donuts and a concession stand for Maine microbrewed beer. There's also a glass-enclosed room in the entryway for sponsors or promotions.
The newly enclosed corners of the 37-year-old building have glass walls, several with etched images of figure skaters, hockey players and concert scenes.
Once-crammed concourses have been widened by as much as 4 feet to make it easier to walk around the building.
In the arena itself, maroon-cushioned seating has replaced hard plastic seats, and in the corners are six luxury boxes, two of them already sold, said Roberta Wright, marketing director for the civic center.
The first event in the renovated arena will be the 24th annual Maine Home, Remodeling and Garden Show, this weekend.
Men in hard hats and yellow vests were still working on the building Monday, with welders and painters finishing up their work. The smell of paint was still strong.
Neal Pratt, chairman of the trustees, is glad the work is coming to an end.
"It's been such a long time in coming," he said as he walked through the backstage area, with expanded entryways to the main floor and three truck bays instead of the single bay that the building had previously. Off to the side is a new industrial-use kitchen, which will allow more elaborate food preparation on site.
The trustees put a major headache behind them this month, finally signing a five-year lease with the civic center's primary tenant, the Portland Pirates. Lease negotiations fell apart last summer, mostly over the division of revenue from food and liquor sales, and the team decided to play all of this season's home games in Lewiston.
The American Hockey League team will return to the civic center in the fall.
Many of the renovations addressed physical drawbacks in the building, which first opened in 1977 at a cost of $7 million – which would be $32 million in 2013 dollars.
In the main lobby, for example, ticket holders had to get through lines of people waiting to buy tickets.
Navigating the long concourses along Spring and Free streets was often difficult when the walkways were blocked by people lined up for concessions or to use the restrooms. Those concourses have been widened, and concessions and restrooms have been moved to improve traffic flow.
The 15-month renovation was funded by bonds approved by Cumberland County voters in 2011. Final figures aren't available yet, but trustees said the project will end just slightly over budget.
Changes along the way included the elimination of a plan to add seating suspended from the ceiling, which saved $2.5 million, and a decision to spend a few hundred thousand more on acrylic flooring, instead of stained concrete, on the main concourses.
Pratt said the biggest unexpected cost overrun was keeping the building heated for workers, and losing work time to snowstorms. "This winter was tough," Bruno said.
"But overall, we got a lot of bang for our buck," Pratt said.
Several changes will save money and energy: Gone are the external stairs that workers had to shovel, including the steep "suicide stairs" at the corner of Spring and Center streets, which were never used but had to be kept clear as fire exits.
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Bike lanes won't be showing up on West Bowles Avenue anytime soon.
Jeffco has tabled a proposal to paint on-street bicycle lanes on Bowles from C-470 to east of South Pierce Street. While the plan is feasible, public sentiment was mixed on the project, said Jeffco Transportation and Engineering Director Kevin French.
Bowles had been identified in the county's 2012 bicycle-pedestrian plan as a potential east-west corridor for two-wheeled vehicles.
The Jeffco Sheriff's Office said goodbye to one of its own this week, a man whose passion for serving the community didn't end when he clocked out for the day.
More than a thousand people, many of them law officers, came to the 1stBank Center in Broomfield on Monday to remember sheriff's Sgt. David Baldwin, 50. Baldwin was killed while on duty Jan. 27 when his Harley-Davidson motorcycle reportedly was struck on Colorado 93 by a vehicle driving in the oncoming lane.
Two men suspected of planning to break into parked vehicles were arrested recently in South Jeffco.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the 5800 block of West Roxbury Place, in the Columbine Knolls neighborhood, on Jan. 16 after neighbors spotted two men looking into the windows of vehicles parked along the street.
Deputies arrested Derrick Hawkes, 19, and William Bisson, 23, in the neighborhood a short time later.
The trial of former Inter-Canyon fire chief David MacBean is scheduled to begin July 7.
MacBean is accused of stealing approximately $643,000 from the Morrison-based fire district. The charges include three counts of theft of $20,000 or more and three counts of embezzlement of public property, both felonies.
MacBean's jury trial is scheduled from July 7 through 11.
The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo has rescinded its request to allow Deer Creek Middle School shooter Bruco Eastwood to take limited, supervised trips as part of his treatment.
Eastwood was found not guilty by reason of insanity in October 2011 of attempted murder in the shootings of Deer Creek students Matt Thieu and Reagan Weber on Feb. 23, 2010.
The Jeffco Economic Development Corp. has received positive feedback on a proposal to partner with the county on an initiative to find real estate that could serve as areas for economic development.
The EDC is seeking a shared-services agreement to identify those properties and work to turn them into potential sites for business expansion. The county would provide an employee to act as a liaison to planning and zoning departments in the county for developers looking to expand in Jeffco.
The Littleton City Council has approved an overhaul of the city's comprehensive plan, the document that helps guide development.
The council voted 7-0 for a document that outlines a vision for the city's future and for where it needs to focus its efforts to get there.
Several major streets in South Jeffco are set for improvements in 2014.
Jeffco's Transportation and Engineering Department plans to finish construction this year on improvements to West Quincy Avenue between Kipling Parkway and Wadsworth Boulevard.
The improvements include adding a through lane in both directions, said Kevin French, head of Transportation and Engineering.
A lawsuit filed against the Jeffco Sheriff's Office by current and former deputies over pay raises has been dismissed.
About 40 employees filed the suit in federal court late in 2012, claiming that a salary schedule used as a recruitment tool was essentially a guarantee of future raises. The employees sued for back wages and overtime starting in 2012.
Yet in his ruling Jan. 13, Judge Wiley Daniel said the deputies were at-will employees and that the pay schedule posted by the sheriff was a promise, not a contract.
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Mt. Norris Boy Scout Reservation
Site remediation work at the Mt. Norris Boy Scout Reservation in Eden, Vermont grew out of an earlier EPA cleanup at the Vermont Asbestos Group Mine Site in Eden and Lowell, Vt. The Vermont Asbestos Group (VAG) mine, which closed in 1993, contains millions of tons of waste rock with varying levels of asbestos. That mine cleanup in 2007 and 2008 was aimed at containing or filtering asbestos-contaminated run-off from rain and snow to keep it from affecting nearby waterways. During EPA's cleanup work at the VAG site, EPA learned that potentially contaminated rock waste from the mining operation had been moved off-site over the years for fill, road cover, grading material and other purposes. Representatives of the Mount Norris Boy Scout Reservation, about three miles from the mine, told the Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC) that mine waste had been brought to the camp to be used as parking lot fill, and possibly road cover. The parking lot was later capped with asphalt.
In March 2009, VT DEC requested EPA assistance with asbestos sampling at the Boy Scout camp. Based on initial sampling done by EPA that month and after numerous conversations with EPA and DEC regarding additional sampling and clean-up timeframes, the Boy Scouts decided to close the camp for that summer. Work began in June to sample soil at various locations of the camp. That fall, all 58 structures, including cabins, lean-tos, latrines and the ranger house were cleaned. EPA sampled structures after the cleanup and, where necessary, did additional cleanup activities. Sealing agent was used in some of the wooden structures and on a concrete floor. Since the majority of campers sleep in canvas tents and other 'soft' structures, each structure was removed from storage, opened and vacuumed. In addition, two bare areas near the dining hall and kitchen were paved with asphalt to prevent fibers from becoming airborne.
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Subject: Special Education Cooperatives List
Source: Special Education Finance
Intended Audience: Special Education Directors, Financial Administrators, Superintendents
Date: November 23, 2011
The Division has posted a list of districts that are members of K-12 special education cooperatives across the state. The list identifies the name of the cooperative, member districts, contact person for the cooperative, and the fiscal agent district. The purpose of a cooperative agreement is to enable school districts to pool their resources. Districts form cooperatives for different reasons; some provide a variety of special education services, especially therapies and consultative services that are limited in the serving area. Others focus on specific disabilities or share a Director of Special Education.
Some of these Cooperatives have formed due to "Start-Up" grants provided by us.
The Division encourages districts interested in forming a cooperative to review the list and contact current cooperative directors and/or member districts for more information on cooperative operational procedures.
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States with the Highest and Lowest Taxes
"Location, location, location" applies to more than housing. Where you live can help or hinder your ability to make ends meet.
"It depends on demographics and individual circumstances," says Walter Molony of the National Association of Realtors. "For those relocating for a job, the job is the deciding factor. However, taxes would possibly have some influence on your choice when you're retiring."
A myriad of taxes -- property, license, state and local sales, property, inheritance, estate and excise taxes on gasoline -- eat away at your disposable income. Weighing the tax landscape against your financial picture lets you stretch your dollars.
The biggest tax ticket citizens face after paying the Internal Revenue Service is the one their state presents. Forty-one states and the District of Columbia levy a personal income tax.
A comparison of 2012 tax rates compiled by the Federation of Tax Administrators ranks Hawaii as the top taxer with an 11 percent maximum state income tax rate. Second-place California's top rate hits 9.3 percent, unless you make more than $1 million and have to pay 10.3 percent.
Each of these states has a personal income tax floor, deductions, exemptions, credits and varying definitions of taxable income that determine what a citizen actually pays. The 10 highest income tax states on the FTA's 2012 list were:
- California 13.3%
- Hawaii 11.0%
- New Jersey 8.97%
- Vermont 8.95%
- Iowa 8.98%
- New York 8.82%
- Minnesota 7.85%
- North Carolina 7.75%
- Wisconsin 7.75%
- South Carolina 7.0%
Only seven states have no personal income tax:
- Wyoming
- Washington
- Texas
- South Dakota
- Nevada
- Florida
- Alaska
Tennessee and New Hampshire limit their tax to interest and dividend income, not income from wages.
Among the states that tax income, Pennsylvania's 3.07 percent flat tax ranks the Keystone State as the tenth lowest in the nation, according to the FTA's 2012 list.
Low personal income tax rates can be misleading; a lack of exemptions and deductions can raise the effective rate you pay. The Retirement Living Information Center says figuring your total tax burden, including sales and property taxes, gives you a more accurate reading on affordability.
"If you're on a fixed income, property taxes become a factor," says the NAR's Molony.
Property tax falls under local, not state, jurisdiction. The most expensive property tax counties in terms of percent of income, according to the Tax Foundation's analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2009 American Community Survey were:
- Passaic County, New Jersey 8.79%
- Essex County, New Jersey 8.27%
- Union County, New Jersey 8.13%
These Louisiana parishes hold the least expensive spots for property tax as a percent of income:
- Grant Parish 0.26%
- Assumption Parish 0.26%
- Vernon Parish 0.25%
If you're a consumer, you'll want to consider that all but five states -- Oregon, New Hampshire, Montana, Delaware and Alaska -- rely on sales tax for revenue. Of these, Alaska also has no income tax, thanks to the severance tax it levies on oil and natural gas production. However, 37 states, including sales-tax-free Alaska and Montana, allow local municipalities to impose a sales tax, which can add up.
Tuba City, Arizona has the distinction of most expensive sales tax city in the country, a 13.725 percent combined state, county and To'Nanees'Dizi tribal rate, according to a Tax Foundation 2012 analysis.
The top five highest total sales tax states as ranked by the Tax Foundation for 2012 were (combination of state and average local sales tax):
- Tennessee 9.44%
- Arkansas 9.18%
- Louisiana 8.89%
- Washington 8.87%
- Oklahoma 8.72%
Residents of these states pay the least in sales taxes overall:
- Hawaii 4.35%
- Alaska 1.69%
- Oregon 0%
- Delaware 0%
- Montana 0%
The Tax Foundation interprets individual tax burden by what taxpayers actually spend in local and state taxes, rather than report these expenses from the state revenue perspective used by the Census Bureau. Its State and Local Tax Burden Rankings study reported that Americans paid an average rate of 9.9 percent in state and local taxes in 2010. According to the foundation, the five highest state-local tax states were:
- New York 12.8 %
- New Jersey 12.4%
- Connecticut 12.3%
- California 11.2%
- Wisconsin 11.1%
The same states have ranked as the top three consistently since 2005, according to the foundation. "Lots of people want to relocate for lifestyle issues," says Molony. "Some seek a nicer climate. If all things are equal between climate choices, the tax situation becomes an area worth exploring."


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What about MC/AC wire. Is the *clad* good enough on how much *capacity* the wire inside needs.
I plan to put a 4" square box on a wall that has been mudded/rocked over.
It's roughly 1 1/4"+ in depth so to make this fairly seamless, I plan to channel out the wall, run the BX in the channel and then plaster the BX in place. I plan to take a chipping hammer and chip out the area where the box will be so it sits flush with the wall (poured concrete wall).
Is is ~okay~ to bury the wire in plaster ?
Or does it need room/air around it.
If you do not overload it, it should NOT overheat or need ventilation other than what flows through the armored covering.
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Breaker needs to be a 40 amp and wire needs to be 8 AWG. A 30 amp breaker will nuisance trip on hard starts. Full load amps is when it's running at full capacity. Starting current is a lot higher than FLA.
Check to see what size the main wires are on the unit where you are supposed to make your connection from the breaker panel. If the wires are bigger than 10awg or add up to be bigger than 10awg then you cannot use a 30 amp breaker.
Look for a rating of minimum circuit ampacity on the unit as well.
Your fuses or breakers are designed to protect the wiring in your home from short circuits and overheating and starting a fire. They are not designed to protect your appliances. You cannot legally run a 10awg wire to a 50 amp breaker.


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Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Adrien Adrien May 7, 2012 10:20 AM
I just wanted to comment about the life of RF3.3 vs RF 4.x.
In first what I thing about richfaces
a)First for the compliments:
- awesome
-Excellent forum with answers
-performant (for our site)
-very good documentation
-good tracking bugs and changes with jira
b)Second for what I believe are the gaps:
-I think the fundamental flaw that is lacking it is the "skins" which by default are (I am only quoting the feedback from users of our site): 'austere'. I think a nice update to the web2.0 bring more users to richfaces. Especially since the skins can overcome a difficult task of design :-)
-The perimeters of bug fixes or changes in jira change enough (I think particularly to two points which I held to my heart: migration 3.3-> 4.x rich: pages (RF-8751) that have moved from 4.0 to 4.1 and now in future and a 'skin' to show trends that can be done in web2.0 that followed also in future 4.0,4.1 and now Futur(?).
Now the subject of my post:
New versions of browsers (firefox 11, etc. Some months about ie8 ..) mean that applications must accumulate RF3.3 workarounds. It is difficult to follow all forum posts in search of a loss of compatibility due to updating of browsers.
Currently we see no more corrections officials for RF3.3.3 , so I think that a version of RF should at minimum some time to ensure compatibility with the new
browsers (Firefox, ie, chromium), especially when the jump to version as JSF1.2 JSF2.0 is 'long'. I think the versions LTS (Long Term Support) of ubuntu for example.
Of course, we are now migrating in RF4, but it's a pretty heavy task, especially since:
we are waiting for migration of certain components of richfaces 3.3.3 not yet ported (rich: page etc. ..), some bug fixes 4.xx RF , and we move along in AS7. x. although close to a final version that we hope to put into production by the end of the year but we are worried by whether one is really ready RF4.x in our application no longer runs under RF 3.3. 3 in some browsers.
So, we would like to know what was the vision of the team richfaces respect to the life of RF3.3.3, and generally when RF5 begin what will be the life of RF4?
Best regards
(sorry for my english and thank you to google translation:-))
1. Re: Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Brian Leathem May 9, 2012 3:14 PM (in response to Adrien Adrien)
Adrien - tahnks for the compliments and the feedback. Agreed, the themes need to be updated. We are exploring some initiatives to better enable this.
The re-write required to port the comopnents to JSF 2 was significant, and the RichFaces 4 codebase has diverged significantly from the RichFaces 3 codebase - the effort to maintain both in parallel would be a signficant one. As such we're focused on moving RichFaces 4 forward and are encouraging our users to migrate.
The hard-break between RichFaces 3 and RichFaces 4 was required because of the significant change introduced with standardized ajax suport in JSF 2, and some other significant APi changes which strongly affected how compnents are put together. Such a breaking change isn't forseen in the near future of JSF, so I don't expect we'll have to introduce such a breaking change in RichFaces. Rather, I see the RichFaces framework and components following a more evolutionary style, allowing applications to eveolve, rather than migrate.
2. Re: Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Brendan Healey May 11, 2012 5:09 AM (in response to Brian Leathem)
> we are waiting for migration of certain components of richfaces 3.3.3 not yet ported (rich: page etc. ..),
It's probably a good idea to check that there actually are plans in place for further porting, and if there are
not, having a strategy for how to do what you need to do. You don't want to be waiting for the bus that never
Is the above reference to a4j:page?
3. Re: Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Adrien Adrien May 10, 2012 2:15 PM (in response to Brendan Healey)
yes, a4j:page
4. Re: Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Paul Dijou May 10, 2012 2:22 PM (in response to Adrien Adrien)
Hi Adrien,
From RichFaces 3.3 showcase :
- <a4j:page> is a deprecated component used for solving of incompatibility problems in early Ajax4jsf and MyFaces versions.
So I guess this component will never be in RichFaces 4.x since it's deprecated. Can't you use <h:head> and <h:body> instead ?
5. Re: Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Adrien Adrien May 10, 2012 2:31 PM (in response to Brian Leathem)
I've checked in RF3.3 this is rich:page not a4j:page
<rich:page contentType="text/html" theme="#{prefs.layout.theme}" width="#{prefs.layout.width}" sidebarWidth="#{prefs.layout.sidebarWidth}" sidebarPosition="#{prefs.layout.position}" oncontextmenu="return false;" pageTitle="#{mngrpage.title}" >
So , yes i write <html>/body i personal layout, but it is not according to skins theme like in RF3.3
6. Re: Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Brian Leathem May 10, 2012 2:52 PM (in response to Adrien Adrien)
You're talking about the RF 3 layout components:
I still see these as being obviated by facelet templating standardized in JSF 2. We discussed this quite a bit in the thread: https://community.jboss.org/message/721231
And Bernard has provided a Sandbox layout component:
I would still like to see a justification of why we need this in RF 4. Is it just to ease migration? Or are there use cases that are not met by the standard facelet templating technology?
Is it perhaps just a matter of providing documentation on how to map your RF 3 rich:page/layout templates to a Facelet template?
7. Re: Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Adrien Adrien May 10, 2012 3:23 PM (in response to Brian Leathem)
It is rather to have consistent theme in the page like in RF3 rather than simply an easy migration
I have the layout of the sandbox, but as they are not in RF4, they will not be tested and guaranteed supported different browsers (or I'm not wrong?)
8. Re: Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Brian Leathem May 10, 2012 3:35 PM (in response to Adrien Adrien)
That's correct, SandBox components do not undergo the same QA process as the "official" RichFaces components.
For those following along, the RF 3 page/layout comopnents are demoed here:
If the concern is moreso to have a consistent theme from RF 3 to RF 4, then I'd like to take a stab at creating a facelet template and css file that one could use to replace the use of the layout component.
In parallel to this, we can look at promoting the layout component from the sandbox to RF 4, in one of the 4.3 milestones.
Would you mind filing a jira to track this request?
9. Re: Life of Richfaces 3.3.3 ?Adrien Adrien May 11, 2012 2:37 PM (in response to Brian Leathem)


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The Jacksonville Jaguars kicker stands out from all other NFL kickers but his distinction is not likely to earn him a free beer in a Jacksonville sports bar. Scobee, you see, is the only kicker to miss an extra point this season.
The shame.
Scobee is 3-for-4 on extra points. (Although he is 8-for-8 on field goals and his 175 career field goals tie the team record, but ignore that because it doesn't help our story.)
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